Daily Quiz | On World Organ Donation Day Premium

World Organ Donation Day is observed every year on August 13. In this quiz, we scratch the mere surface of the vast area of organ transplantation

Daily Quiz | On World Organ Donation Day

File photo of Isabelle Dinoire, the woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant on November 27, 2005.

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1 / 5 | Which nation has the higher organ donor rate in the world? It reportedly had a donor rate of 46.7 per million people in 2017.

Answer : Spain 

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2 / 5 | Advances in technology have now made it possible to do a successful half-matched or partially-matched transplant. The donor, a close family member, can be a half match for the patient. What is this transplantation called?

Answer : Haploidentical transplant

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3 / 5 | After death, any part of the human body can be donated, why, even the whole body can be donated for scientific research. But when a person is alive, what are the organs that one can technically donate to another?

Answer : 1 kidney, 1 lower lobe of the lung, a part of the liver, a part of the intestine

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4 / 5 | Which was the first human organ to be transplanted successfully? And when?

Answer : Kidney, in 1954

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5 / 5 | This is an easy one. What is the law that governs human organs transplantation in India? Not so easy: Which two states are/were exempt from this law?

Answer : Transplantation of Human Organs Act; Andhra Pradesh, and the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir

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